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British Genre
Books in the British genre:
Hugh Gwyeth (1928)
A romance of the English Civil War.
Author(s):
Beulah Marie Dix
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Lucia in London: a Novel (1928)
Lucia decides to try her wings in a larger society.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
E. F. Benson
Illustrator(s):
None
Masterman Ready: or The Wreck of the Pacific (1928)
This is a robinsonnade written by a captain in the British navy. A family going to settle in Australia is wrecked on a desert island and the old seaman, Ready, helps them survive.
Author(s):
Frederick Marryat
Illustrator(s):
John Rae
Frank Schoonover
Meet Mr. Mulliner (1928)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Money for Nothing (1928)
John Carroll is in love with Pat Wyvern, but his uncle and her father are at loggerheads. Another nephew, Hugh Carmody needs money and enlists a gang of crooks to steal the heirlooms, but all comes right in the end.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Wallace Morgan
Money for Nothing (1928)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Mr. Punch’s County Songs (1928)
A collection of verses of a humorous nature on the counties of England. The pieces originally appeared in Punch.
Author(s):
E. V. Lucas
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard
Robin Hood (1928)
A retelling of the adventures of Robin Hood based on the history and real life of the people of his time, including their Catholic faith.
Author(s):
Edith Heal
Illustrator(s):
Dan Content
The Shadow of the Hawk (1928)
Having just escaped from an island prison more deadly than Devil’s Island, Dawkins knew better than to get involved with young Nina, but finds it impossible to resist.
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
The White Company (1928)
A group of English men at arms follow Sir Nigel during the hundred years war to France and Spain.
Author(s):
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
Wulnoth the Wanderer (1928)
The story of a born thrall who aids two men to become king, not least Alfred of Wessex.
Author(s):
Herbert Escott Inman
Illustrator(s):
James Daugherty
The 1929 Christmas Tree Annual (1929)
An anthology for the holidays published in aid of the Children’s Country Holiday Fund.
Author(s):
E. F. Benson
Algernon Blackwood
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Mabel Lucie Attwell
Et al
Brown on Resolution (1929)
Author(s):
C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s):
Ellis Silas
The Fairy Caravan (1929)
A young guinea pig runs away and joins the circus.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s):
Beatrix Potter
Fish Preferred (1929)
Galahad Threepwood is ensconced at Blandings Castle working on his memoirs while around him Ronnie Fish is stealing the Empress and various affairs of the heart are going awry.
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
Fun ’o the Fair (1929)
This booklet about the showman Lord George Sanger was adapted from an essay which introduced Seventy Years a Showman by the said Lord George.
Author(s):
Kenneth Grahame
Illustrator(s):
Roberta F. C. Waudby
A Gentleman of Leisure (1929)
Author(s):
P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s):
Unknown
In a Glass Darkly (1929)
A collection of horror and mystery stories by the Irish master. The first issue is in black cloth with a larger page size.
Author(s):
Sheridan Le Fanu
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Kaleidoscope (1929)
A collection of stories which includes a robinsonnade. Dust jacket is by Dorothy P. Lathrop.
Author(s):
Eleanor Farjeon
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy P. Lathrop
Livestock in Barracks (1929)
A collection of humorous sketches about army life in World War I, originally published in Punch.
Author(s):
Anthony Armstrong
Illustrator(s):
Ernest H. Shepard